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As the saying goes, a company is only as good as its employees. CBT Architects underscored that philosophy when they named new Senior Associates and Associates. Recognizing the leadership value these individuals bring to the firm, CBT Architects, Boston’s second largest architecture and urban design company, has named 5 new Senior Associates, and 12 new Associates. [...]

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Earlier this week, the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) concluded their Greenway District Planning Study, setting building height limits along the 1-1/2 mile long Rose Kennedy Greenway. To ensure that no one building or collection of buildings dominates the Greenway in terms of its scale, orientation, or architecture, the team examined potential massing studies from the [...]

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The Boston Globe recently reported on a proposal by local developer Samuels and Associates for two new buildings in the Fenway. A building at 132 Brookline Ave. would house 170 high-end apartments and include retail space on the first floor. A street over, on the corner of Boylston and Van Ness streets, another building would [...]

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After an open call for entries and a “a review process conducted by a jury of prominent designers”, winners for this year’s Design Biennial Boston have been announced: Dan Hisel of Dan Hisel Architect, Somerville Carla Ceruzzi and Ryan Murphy of Ceruzzi & Murphy Projects, Somerville William O’Brien, Jr. of William O’Brien Jr. LLC, Cambridge [...]

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It took way too long, finding the processing limits of my MacBook, and solving an upload issue with my video hosting provider, but we have it: video of Steve Glenn’s recent talk at DWR. On a drizzly Thursday night — nothing compared to what we’ve had for the last few days, mind you — over [...]

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